I could say a lot about the Jack Ryan situation — and I already have, though not here — but I think it was best summed up by the commonsensical explanation I overheard one woman tell her friend outside the Walgreen’s the other day:

“He said he and his wife were trying to keep the records private to protect their son. But what it really was,” she concluded, “was he was a freak.”

Exactly. What a schmuck.